Relf v. &198tna Casualty Surety Co.

Mrs. Emma Relf sustained personal injuries as the result of a fall in the underground passageway connecting the main lobby of the Whitney National Bank with its cold storage vault. She brought suit against the said bank and Aetna Casualty Surety Company of Hartford, Connecticut, its liability insurance carrier, alleging that the fall had resulted from the fact that a certain rug laid on the floor of that passageway had been placed there "in such a manner as to endanger the life and limbs of persons walking on the same * * * that said rug was on a flat marble floor, with one edge overlapping,…